Horse Trade Theater Group Announces August Events
By: Kelsey Denette Jul. 10, 2012
Horse Trade Theater Group has announced the following events for August:
On A Mission
Wednesday, August 8 @ 7pm $5
During the year, On A Mission will carry out various missions and report back at the show. Each show features sketch comedy, and guests from the world of comedy and beyond.
The Skinny
Wednesday, August 8 @ 8pm $10
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
The Skinny is a political comedy talk show with a twist: The host, Peter DeGiglio, is just an average schnook struggling to wrap his head around the events that shape our world. Joining him is a discussion panel of real life experts and a plethora of wacky variety acts.
Sketch Block
Wednesday, August 8 @ 9pm $8
Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform!
Thank You, Robot
Friday, August 17 @ 10:30pm $5
A showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again.
STORYTELLING
The Adam Wade Show
Monday, August 13 @ 7pm $5
Moth storytelling favorite, Adam Wade, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.
The BTK Band
Monday, August 13 @ 9pm $5
Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.
TOLD
An evening of themed storytelling
Monday, August 20 @ 7pm $12 ($10 in advance)
TOLD is a monthly storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind. Each month New York's best performers take the stage to tell true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience.
BURLESQUE
Naked Girls Reading
Wednesday, August 15 @ 9pm $20
A monthly nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local burlesque luminaries, professional librarians, authors and other Naked Girls.
Wasabassco Hellfire Club
Thursday, August 16 @ 10:30pm $40
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Wasabassco Burlesque presents their most adult show ever! Step through the gates of this exclusive club for a monthly erotic salon, curated to cater to your most sophisticated and lustful desires.
VARIETY & MUSIC
Penny’s Open Mic
Every Tuesday @ 9pm $3
Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
Cabaret Showdown
Hosted by Mark McDaniels
Sunday, August 26 @ 7pm $10
Do you have what it takes to be a cabaret champion? Contestants compete for the chance to star in their own show or cabaret. Come out and join the fun! Whether you are a contestant or in the audience you are guaranteed to have a blast.
FILM
Bastardpiece Theatre
Sunday, August 12 @ 7pm $15
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Burlesque MC Bastard Keith and striptease beauty Madame Rosebud have scoured the earth to find the dumbest, goriest, nakedest exploitation movies you've never seen. Bastardpiece Theater is the result: an out of control evening featuring wild go-go, drinking games, giveaways and hilarious live commentary.
PLAY DEVELOPMENT & ONE ACTS
Shotz
Monday, August 6 @ 7pm & 8:30pm $10 (includes a free beer)
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Six playwrights and directors get a week and a half to write and rehearse a short play based around three conditions, a theme, and a pre-selected cast, and then its go time. Different playwrights and directors featured every month.
HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City. In 2011 Horse Trade received the New York Innovative Theatre Ellen Stewart Stewardship Award for demonstrating a significant contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway community through service, support and leadership.
For more information, visit www.horseTRADE.info.
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